New issue of AMP is up with features on Communique, The Explosion, Terror, Unearth and Black Dahlia Murder and more. Also
a feature called "Friends of AMP" where people from pretty much every band out there chime in on the upcoming election,
and their thoughts on voting. All of the regular columnists and hundreds of record reviews as well. New retail edition
hit Interpunk today as well.

I think it's pretty amazing how much time and space AMP dedicates to politics. It seems pretty risky for a pretty much mainstream, albiet in the underground, magazine to push such political views so much. Almost all of their columns, and a lot of their non-band articles. I think that's really cool.

i havent read amp. but i can imagine its not risky at all since 80-90% of the fuckin readers are probably a bunch of liberal kids who believe "anyone but bush" is a good stance and they are just as closed minded as 80 - 90 percent of the bands out there that are probably the ones speaking in the amp magazine.
- jones the bones
- stevejones8770@yahoo.com

Wow; you really stoopify me more and more with every ignorant word that comes out of your mouth. There was really only a couple days where you weren't the idiot of the day, but then I found out it was other people posting as you. Why, for God's sake, anybody would choose to pretend to be you is beyond my realm of imagination, but that was the case.
So, again, congratulations on the idiotic coment of the day award, and it's only 11:51 AM!
-whatafuckingmoronyouare8770@yahoo.com

had you been intelligent, you would have stated that i was wrong because amp portrays a variety of political views and i am wrong in my assumption that most are just anti-bush statements. but no, you did nothing of the sort. making you just as idiotic as you say i am...well...i guess you can go cry now since you found out how idiotic you are.
- jones the bones
- stevejones8770@yahoo.com

Actuall, the more idiotic fucking this that you said, was starting off your coment with "I haven't read AMP". Than how do you know what the fuck you are talking aboout? Are you trying to be cool and "punk" and hate something that is "popular", or are you really just a fucking idiot?

wow. maybe you just read that line then nothing else of my comment. i never hated on amp. i didnt say i didnt like amp. i said that for a music magazine nowadays being political isnt risky at all since they are preaching to their choir. now. you are obviously the bigger idiot since you didnt even comprehend my comment
- jones the bones is whatever
- stevejones8700@yahoo.com

yeah, you're right. If you consider it a "closed minded magaine" full of "closed minded people and bands", you probably like it and weren't saying anything bad about it at all. You should crack it open before you open your pie hole. You might be pleasantly surprised with what you find inside. There's a lot of differing opinions in there, and most of them are there to spark individual thought.

The best comment on the election:
"For the first few years of my adult (over 18) life I consciously resisted participating in the electoral process. Although eligible to vote, I was one of those Americans (now over 50%) who stayed home on Election Day and proudly told anyone who'd listen "fuck politics." In my deluded state I actually believed that my non-participation was some kind of brash, proletarian "statement" which would galvanize others into doing likewise with global anarchy being the ultimate goal. I was a sucker of the 1st degree. I had allowed myself to be effectively marginalized out of the public arena; I had willingly become a non-factor in life.
My awakening occurred during the 1992 election year. Terrified at the prospect of four more years of George Bush Sr. and romanced by Bill Clinton's absorbing populist rhetoric I was compelled for the first time to register (which I did-as a democrat) and to actually vote.
The spin in the national media that year was pretty much the same as it is right now. Each day we were hammered by statistics and graphs and polls showing a race between two men (three once Ross Perot joined the fray,) George Bush and Bill Clinton. The two candidates from the two wealthiest parties were all over the television with their massive ad campaigns and a series of debates; just the two of them- Democrat and Republican. By election- day my mind was made up; I was going to vote for Bill Clinton! So off I went to the polls...
Imagine my surprise when I stepped into my little voting cubicle and, upon removing the ballot, there were like seven people running for president! There was a Green, a Libertarian, an Independent and even something called the Peace and Freedom party. I had no clue who any of these people were; hadn't seen or heard a thing about them on the news or in the American press and they certainly weren't participating in any of the televised debates I saw. Did these parties even have conventions? The Dems and Republicans both garnered prime time network coverage for their shindigs replete with graphics and music and a who's who of broadcast celebrity. I had never even heard of these other parties yet there they were. These people had all done the time and put in the money and work to get their names on the ballot and yet most Americans (myself included) would never know who they were or what their ideas might be. Just names on a ballot; lip service to a Democratic ideal which has been hijacked by a corrupt duopoly to insure that people don't participate in the public arena or if, god forbid, they do participate, they have only two choices (both being safe bets for the business community and entrenched power in Washington).
I was furious. I felt lied to and manipulated. I made up my mind to do everything I could to foster an electoral climate where every candidate on the ballot has equal time in the press, debates and in the public consciousness. With only two people to choose from (and with those two candidates and their parties increasingly in agreement on nearly everything) is it any wonder that half of us don't even bother? I believe that if we were presented with more options more of us would participate. These other political parties and the candidates they run will undoubtedly speak to millions of Americans who just can't relate to the endless parade of white privilege we're presented with every four years.
This is why I re-registered as a Green and voted for the Green candidate in 2000 and will do the same this year. If Mr. Bush gets another term than so be it - we deserve it for allowing our electoral system to be stolen away and for letting ourselves be marginalized and duped into exercising one of our most precious rights in a rigged game where we're bullied into voting for the lesser of two evils rather than our own, true conscience.
-Russ Rankin
ONLYCRIME / GOOD RIDDANCE"

from the new on backwords.com...i know the links dont work, but here is the site they are linking too each time the say "here"
http://us-election.org/wv-candidates.php?candidate=brown
"Are you an undecided voter? Do you feel like you have no choice in candidates? Well, fear not, you fence-sitting bastards! We've got plenty of candidates! You want a communist president, comrade? Well we've got one for you!.
Communism too strong for your tastes? A Socialist regime more to your liking? Well we've got freakin' three of 'em! (1, 2, 3) Want to vote for someone who can't actually win, no matter how many votes they get? Done, and done! One is 24 and the other isn't even a citizen of The United States.
Are you in prison, but not on a felony charge? Vote for Leonard Peltier, a man who is also in prison! FOR MURDER!
Now, we all know that Cheney would never want all his holes filled with steaming hard cock. But do you want a VP that would? Vote for former porn star Marilyn Chambers and her pimp! Now I know what you're saying, "You didn't list a party for me, I'm old and I don't like people to drink. The idea of people having fun fills me with an impotent rage." Well you're in luck we've even got a Prohibition Party. Here you go! And don't worry, your rage will be allowed to remain impotent if you vote for them, because they received only 208 votes nationally in the last election! That's less people than work for their party. Yes, this party has been around since the 1920s when Prohibition actually occured! And they're still at it, so vote NOW! "
- jones the bornbackwards is funny sometimes especially when they talk about dick cheney but sometimes they get too ultra liberal which will be right up some of your alleys bones

I checked out the Amp issue with the Dropkick Murphy's on the cover, and it had the same "bands tackle politics" deal. I was pretty turned off by how almost every person that chimed in had really nothing intelligent to say, sans a few bandmembers. There were a few really good ones, like Russ Rankin, for instance. The rest ordered me to vote against George Bush, but offered no compelling arguements to do so. I felt a little defensive and perturbed about being told how to vote. Its my vote and I'll do whatever the fuck I want with it.
p.s. as a sidenote, I'm a left winger.